CONCLUSIONS 



No one would be so cruel to a child as to de- 

 sire that the place of the dog in the luxurious 

 home of its rich mistress should be given to one 

 of these homeless and unloved babes. It is 

 better that the dumb animal should be the vic- 

 tim of the perverted instincts of these women 

 than that a human being should. But it is 

 noteworthy that the money that women are 

 lavishing upon their dogs in the United States 

 would be sufficient to take every one of these 

 100,000 children out of institutions and put 

 them in real homes, just as is done in countries 

 which are sufficiently civilized not to practice 

 the herding of children in institutions. A 

 German scientist has divided women into two 

 classes- -the mother-type and the prostitute- 

 type. Women displaying a fondness for fond- 

 ling dogs, he explicitly explains, do not belong 

 to the mother-type. 



The world has none too much affection. The 

 human heart craves it, and is sweetened by it. 

 I begrudge for every unloved man and 

 woman and for every unmothered child the 

 caresses that are bestowed upon cats and dogs. 

 All of these animals in the world combined 

 have not the sense of appreciation or joy in a 

 kindly and loving caress that is capable of well- 



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